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- noun The
ability to bedisproven ;refutability .
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Examples
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(d) how they would know if the Great Forced State Skooling Frankensystem was ACTUALLY fatally flawed -- there's that 'disprovability' again -- and should be unceremoniously shut down.
unknown title 2009
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The difference and it is a huge one is that the scientific realm is a realm of disprovability and testability, so heliocentrism and creationism are wrong as science in a way that SWEEASTW and mystical scientism are not wrong as religions.
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Scientists are trained to do their battles in public, with disprovability and reproducibility as guiding concepts.
Life and style | guardian.co.uk Brooke Magnanti 2010
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Scientists are trained to do their battles in public, with disprovability and reproducibility as guiding concepts.
Life and style | guardian.co.uk Brooke Magnanti 2010
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Obviously it’s consistent to recognise the inherent disprovability of a deity, but at the same time to consider oneself, and label oneself, an atheist.
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